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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Lansana" (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 20:58:06 -0000
Subject: From Miss Nancy Lansana

>From Nancy Lansana,
Accra Ghana

Hello Dear,

With due respect and humility am writing you. though i know this email will come to you as a surprise. but I know this proposal will be very beneficial, however is not mandatory nor will I in any manner compel you to honor against your will.

I got your esteem contact out of desperate search for a business minded personality in your country, who will honestly assist me to realize my inherited funds into his/her account and as well as invest it into a lucrative business, My name is Nancy Lansana, I am 19yrs old and only surviving daughter of Late Mr. Elton Lansana of Zimbabwe.

During the recent war against the farmers in Zimbabwe from the supporters of our President, Robert Mugabe to claim all the white -owned farms to his party members and his followers, he ordered all the white farmers to surrender all their farms to his party members and his followers.

My father being one of the few rich and successful black farmers in my country was also victimized because of his opposition to Mugabe's policies. And because he did not support Mugabe's ideas, Mugabe's supporters invaded my father's farm and burnt everything in the farm, My father, mother, brothers and sisters were killed by Mugabe's wicked force and made away with a lot of items in my father's farm. This action was taken because my late father felt the growing tension on the farm issue, but I guess he never anticipated the tragedy that brought their brutal and sudden death.

However with the benefit of hindsight, owing to the looming but deteriorating crisis in my country, Zimbabwe, my father, before his unfortunate death deposited with one of the Security Company in Accra Ghana two boxes containing the sum of Fourteen Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$14.5M) and and 500kg gold, with the sole aim of acquiring and buying some dredging equipments in setting up of a dredging firm with his partner. With his death and all his assets seized at home and accounts frozen, I now found myself in a very difficult situation.

After the death of my father, I escaped alive to Republic of Ghana by the help of United Nations Peace Keeping Force where my late father had deposited the money in the Security Company as a family valuable property. And I was permitted to reside here in Ghana as Political Refugee. So Because of my present and unpleasant status here I decided to contact you to assist me to move this inheritance out of Ghana because, as asylum seekers, I'm not allowed to operate any financial transaction of such amount within Ghana and also to assist in providing me a permanent residential permit in your country, so that I will come over to your country to have a better life and also help me to invest the fund into a very good and profitable business and to further my education after the money and gold must have been transferred to your possession.

Please treated this transaction with absolute confidentiality. All the vital documentation/certification that has to do with the origin of the fund is with me for the security reasons. And I will send them to you when we progress. And I guarantee you that this fund is not government fund, drug money, or from arms deals.

In your email reply, please send me your full contact details including your direct phone and fax numbers for further easier communication and I will detail you more immediately I receive your acceptance response. I hope this is the beginning of a prosperous relationship between us.

Thanks and God bless you.

Regards
Miss Nancy Lansana

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